Business Research Guide
The study of business draws on research in various fields, including management, marketing, communication, ethics, computer, business law, accounting, and finance. This document provides an introduction to business-related resources available in and through the Vick Library.
Reference Works
The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behavior
Complete Office Handbook: The Definitive Reference for Today's Electronic Office
The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary
The Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management
Dictionary of Business
Encyclopedia of Business and Finance [2 vols.]
Electronic Resources
Websites
Faith and the Disciplines: Business & Economics (Council for Christian Colleges & Universities)Links to a variety of resources that seek to integrate faith and scholarship in the fields of business and economics.
Periodicals
Private secretaries - Periodicals
Business - Periodicals
Personnel management - Periodicals
Technology - Periodicals
Dewey Class Numbers
Materials related to the study of business are classed at various points in the Dewey Decimal Classification. Following is an overview that should facilitate browsing.
Computers
003 Systems
004 Data Processing Computer Science
005 Computer programming, programs, data
006 Special computer methods
Business
170 Ethics (Moral philosophy)
254.8 Parish administration (Finance)
346.07 Commercial Law
650 Management and auxiliary services
650.1 Personal success in business
651 Office services
651.2 Equipment and supplies
651.3 Office management
651.5 Records management
651.7 Communication Creation and transmission of records
651.8 Data processing Computer applications
651.9 Office services in specific kinds of enterprises
652 Processes of written communication
652.1 Penmanship
652.3 Typing
652.4 Duplication of records and duplicating methods
652.5 Word processing
652.8 Cryptography
653 Shorthand
653.1 Basic shorthand practice
653.2 Abbreviated longhand systems
653.4 Handwritten systems
657 Accounting
657.1 Constructive accounting
657.2 Bookkeeping (Record keeping)
657.3 Financial reporting (Financial statements)
657.4 Specific fields of accounting
657.6 Specific kinds of accounting
657.7 Accounting for specific phases of business activity
657.8 Accounting for enterprises engaged in specific kinds of activities
657.9 Accounting for specific kinds of organizations
658 General management
658.1 Organization and finance
658.2 Plant management
658.3 Personnel management (human resource management)
658.4 Executive management
658.5 Management of production
658.7 Management of materials
658.8 Management of distribution (Marketing)
659 Advertising and public relations
659.1 Advertising
659.2 Public relations
Subject Headings & Subdivisions
Computers
- Computer programs
- --Catalogs
- --Correctness
- --Debugging
- --Maintenance
- --Testing
- --Validation
- --Verification
- Documents in machine-readable form
- Computer security
- Computer software
- --Accounting
- --Catalogs
- --Development
- --Human factors
- --Law and legislation
- --Reusability
- --Taxation
- --Validation
- --Verification
- Computer viruses
Business
- Church finance
- Church tax
- Clergy --Pensions
- Clergy--Salaries, etc.
- Account books
- Business communication
- Business ethics
- Business information services
- Business intelligence
- Business law
- Business mathematics
- Business meetings
- Business planning
- Business presentations
- Business tax
- Business records
- Business report writing
- Business students
- Business teachers
- Business travel
- Business
- --Bibliography
- --Computer programs
- --Databases
- --Forms
- --Religious aspects
- Commercial correspondence
- Commercial statistics
- Consolidation and merger of corporations
- Economic stabilization
- Ethics
- Ethics in the Bible
- Financial statements
- Insurance, Business
- Industrial management
- Library orientation for business students
- Multimedia systems in business presentations
- Sales presentations
Finance
- Finance
- --Computer programs
- --Law and legislation
- --Statistics
- Church finance
- Financial, Personal
- Finance, Public
Management
- Management
- --Communication systems
- --Computer programs
- --Data processing
- --Employee participation
- --Religious aspects
- --Research
- Business enterprises--Finances
- Church management
- Issues management
- Sales management
- Managerial accounting
- Managerial economics
- Management audit
- Management by objectives
Marketing
- Marketing
- --Costs
- --Decision making
- --Law and legislation
- --Management
- Church marketing
- Information storage and retrieval systems--Marketing
- Marketing audits
- Marketing consultants
Last Updated: August 8, 2007
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